Thursday, July 30, 2015

Are anti-capitalists — such as Occupy activists — realising Marx's vision of 'social humanity' as in his Theses on Feuerbach, 1845?

It seems like the principles and strategies of anti-capitalists have the capacity to form a life without money — substituting direct democracy for the outdated operating principle of money in capitalism.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

See
this great short utube video on the enduring Twin Oaks community in
Virginia.It was made when a co-editor of Life Without Money was staying there in 2012 so there is a segment on
going beyond money.More than that it is great seeing all the productive activities
at Twin Oaks and Twin Oakers talking about their everyday activities
for collective sufficiency and governance — a light to a new world:https://vimeo.com/89076764

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Contributors to Life Without Money Terry Leahy, Anitra Nelson & Ariel Salleh will speak on allied topics at the Historical Materialism Australasia 2015: Reading Capital, Class & Gender Today Conference at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia 17–18 July.The Green Agenda Panel takes place at 9.30 am 17 July.Convener of the Greens NSW and award winning journalist Hall Greenland will chair and offer rejoinders.In a critique of Daniel Miller’s work on consumption, Terry Leahy emphasises Miller’s neglect of alienated labour, and the potential of a gift economy.Anitra Nelson’s paper outlines an ecosocialist concept of ‘green materialism’ showing that anti-capitalist movements today correspond to Marx’s ‘new materialism’ as famously elaborated in his eleven Theses on Feuerbach (1845). Furthermore, the defining characteristics of anti-capitalist currents offer the bases for replacing money as the organising principle of our society.Ariel Salleh argues for the holistic inclusion of ‘meta-industrial workers’ in her class theory for an Earth democracy.The most you will have to pay for conference registration is $50 (unwaged $20).